BMW was speeding like a bullet on Ibarska: These were the last seconds of 4 youths who died in Dacia

The horrific accident in which four young people were killed on the Ibar highway in August of last year has received its epilogue - Nikola Mihailovic (28) was sentenced on Wednesday by the Higher Court in Belgrade to four years in prison and a four-year driving ban.

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The first pictures from the scene of the accident that happened in the village of Zupanjac near Lazarevac, in which Katarina Ivankovic (20), Aleksandar Savatic (22), Djordje Belusevic (22) and Djordje Subotic (19) were killed, showed how brutal the crash of a BMW into their Dacia was.

The moment of the collision was also recorded by surveillance cameras. It shows the Dacia joining the Ibar highway from a side road, and then a car that catches up with it like a bullet, at full speed - and it was proven that it was moving at 117 kilometers per hour - and hits it. In almost a split second, the Dacia was "wiped" off the road. Not only did the BMW driver not manage to brake, but the driver of the Dacia had no time to accelerate and thus at least mitigate the catastrophic consequences.

BMW Driver Nikola Mihailovic did drive on the road with the right of way, but he ignored the speed limit of 50 kilometers per hour and was drunk. The video does not show that he even tried to brake.

Yesterday, Mihailovic was released from detention and this measure was replaced with a monitoring device he will wear on his ankle as he stays in his house in Veliki Crljani, until he is called to serve his sentence.

The judge said that Mihailovic did not dispute that he drank before the accident and that he drove fast. However, the fact that his sentence was not stricter was also influenced by the fact that traffic experts said Aleksandar Savatic, the driver of the Dacia, who joined the highway without stopping, also bears a part of responsibility for causing the accident.

"The intersection did not have a stop sign, but the driver of the Dacia had to observe the direction from which the BMW was coming. If he had done that, he would have noticed the BMW's headlights. That omission of his is the initial cause of a dangerous situation. Also, the defendant had a car with the lights on moving toward him, which prevented him from seeing the Dacia earlier, but he also contributed to the dangerous situation with the speed at which he was moving, because if he had driven at 50 kilometers per hour, he could have avoided it," the judge explained.

(Telegraf.rs)